Contemporary Paganism: Minority Religions in a Majoritarian America, Barner-Barry Carol, Barner-Barry C.
Автор: Franklin Anna Название: Pagan Ways Tarot ISBN: 0764349007 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780764349003 Издательство: Schiffer Рейтинг: Цена: 44760.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Pagans recognize that the material world perceived with our five senses is only part of the whole. There are unseen Otherworlds overlapping our own, populated by gods and goddesses, nature spirits, and elementals--the conscious embodiments of the natural forces and energies responsible for the functioning of the universe. For the Pagan, everything has a soul or spiritual essence. This deck is based on the Pagan worldview, its symbols, and teachings, and offers 78 beautiful cards featuring gods and goddesses. An accompanying, easy-to-understand guide tells the story of the Fool as he journeys through the Minor and Major Arcanas, encountering the forces that shape him and each one of us. The myths of the gods create links between cards, between the Majors and Minors, and between the inner and outer paths we walk. This Pagan system of divination can initiate you into the realities of your own psyche and become your guide to spiritual enlightenment. Includes cards and book.
Автор: Cachet Marie, Vikernes Varg Название: Paganism Explained, Part III: The Cult of Mithra & Hymiskvida ISBN: 1986038289 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781986038287 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 6890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Biederwolf William Edward Название: The New Paganism ISBN: 0880195894 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780880195898 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "The New Paganism" is an analysis of spiritual, civic, social and economic responsibilities of the American Christian, and the consequences of our national actions and reactions. Palm Beach Pastor William Biederwolf took the pulse of America in 1934, and he was deeply disturbed by his own prognosis. At that time, he predicted that if it did not change its ways, the country would become a nation of pagans. He analyzes the social and spiritual symptoms of his day and projects ahead into the future. It is a stunning revelation. A comparison of his forecast to our own day provides a roadmap of how we arrived at our current state of affairs. His prescience is like a warning message in a time capsule from the 1930s. It is uncanny, unnerving and when applied to twenty-first century America, it is horrifying.
Автор: Lewis Abram Herbert Название: Paganism in Christianity ISBN: 1646066545 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781646066544 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 18850.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
Originally written as a polemic designed to encourage Protestants to return to the original Jewish origins and rules of the Bible, this work provides a thorough and complete overview of how paganism was absorbed into the Christian religion.
Starting with an overview of how the scriptural texts were interpreted by pagan Gnostics to reflect their value systems and culture, the author then shows that anti-Semitism caused the first non-Jewish converts to the new religion to reject many of the original rules of Christianity.
Next, he shows how most of the outer forms of what became familiar church rites were taken over almost without change from earlier pre-Christian religions and institutions.
Included in these pagan-origin rites incorporated into Christianity are the more famous rituals of Easter and Christmas--but a host of others which will astonish the reader--including the sign of the Cross itself, perhaps one of the most used symbols of Christianity; most baptism rituals--including child-naming ceremonies; Sunday observance; the "mother and child" symbolism of Mary and Jesus; the universally-used "Chi-ro" symbol; the use of candles in churches; the structure and prayer rituals of church services of all denominations, and much more.
The author points out that although all of these pagan influences entered Christianity through the Roman Catholic Church, most were taken over into Protestantism as well.
Contents:
Author's Preface
Chapter I: Remains of Paganism in Christianity
Chapter II: Pagan Methods of Interpreting the Scriptures
Chapter III: Asiatic Pagan Water-Worship
Chapter IV: Water-Worship in Northern Europe
Chapter V: Greek Water-Worship
Chapter VI: Pagan Water-Worship Transferred to Christianity
Chapter VII: Pagan Sun-Worship
Chapter VIII: Sunday Observance Unknown To Christianity before the Middle of the Second Century
Chapter IX: State Religion a Pagan Institution
Chapter X: The Control of Christianity by the State under Constantine and His Successors
Chapter XI: Constantine's Legislation Concerning the Pagan Sunday
Chapter XII: Other Forms of Pagan Residuum in Christianity Part I
Chapter XIII: Other Forms of Pagan Residuum in Christianity Part II
Index
Автор: Gassman Mattias P. Название: Worshippers of the Gods: Debating Paganism in the Fourth-Century Roman West ISBN: 0190082445 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190082444 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 167450.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Worshippers of the Gods shows how fourth-century Latin writers rethought traditional religion during Christianity`s rise. Through five interlocking studies of inscriptions, laws, senatorial papers, and Christian polemics, it traces shifting conceptions of paganism from the Tetrarchic persecution, through Constantine`s reign, to the `disestablishment` of the Roman cults in the 380s.
If you answered yes to either of these questions, then you are going to want to keep reading.
Wicca has grown in popularity over the last decades and is one of the most researched Pagan religion. It is often seen as the Pagan religion, but it's not. It is one of many different Pagan religions, but it does happen to be the newest one. While Wicca has roots that date back several hundred, and even thousands of years, it wasn't started until the 1950s.
Even still, the Wicca we have today doesn't look much like the religion that was started back then. Many different offshoots have sprung to life that focuses on different aspects of the religion to make it work best for the people practicing it, which is a lot like Christianity.
There are a lot of beliefs about witches and Pagans. They are not the old, evil green-faced women, flying on brooms as tv has made us believe. They are in fact, normal people who are able to connect with the Earth on a deeper level. This book will help you learn and understand all there is to know about Wicca.
While it may have grown in popularity, there is still a lot of misconceptions out there about Wicca, along with many other Pagan religions. But that's what this book is here to do. I'd want to teach you what Wicca really is and provide you with a solid foundation in the religion should you decide to become a practitioner.
You will discover the next step is to choose when you are going to do your self-initiation rite. After the knowledge you get from this book, you could also start creating your grimoire, or you could simply continue to read more about Wicca.
In this book you will find:
The history of Wicca
The belief system of the Wicca Religion
Beginner spells that you can start using
A ritual you can perform to self-initiate yourself
The power of elements
Deities
The importance of the moon, days of the week, and wheel of the year
Tarots and Runes
... And so much more.
This book is a great fit for anybody who wants to become a Wiccan or somebody who enjoys learning about all types of religion. It is important, though, that you read this with open eyes and an open heart. Pagan religions tend to "scare" people because of what society has taught us through other religions, but there is nothing to be afraid of. It is a natural religion, and its main purpose is to not cause harm to others.
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Around the year 1100 a genius mind--woman or man--created an image, which has not lost its meaning even to this day. It was made by hundreds of busy hands as a colorful goblin most likely used originally for centuries as a canopy in the Romanesque Cathedral of Gerona, North east of Spain. The original tapestry showed all the signs of a mandala: a big circle surrounded by a square with a central symbol and many interesting details. What makes this mandala unique, is the fact that it unites pagan symbols in the form of nature gods (rivers, winds, the year), as well as the genesis of the Jewish Tora (the creation myth), the holy cross of Christianity held by the roman emperor Constantine the Great and according to Muslim tradition the tapestry as a whole and its mandala shape.
In 1982, author Hansueli Etter visited the Cathedral of Gerona in Catalonia (Spain) as a tourist. There he met the Creation Tapestry for the first time. He hoped to find an answer to the following questions: why the Creation Tapestry fascinated him as well as thousands of annual visitors and why this medieval image still enthralls today, going far beyond an art-historical curiosity.
After extensive studies he dared to reconstruct the missing parts at the bottom of the picture, since the basic concept is undoubtedly a mandala. The added images should fit sensibly into the essential statement of the Creation Tapestry.
Nowadays a part at the bottom of the tapestry is missing, but the still visible iconographic details and the understanding of its meaning allowed a full reconstruction of the image.
To discover the symbolic meaning of the rich iconography of the Creation Tapestry opens up an insight in the common background of all religions back to the roots of shamanism, which use mandalas in dance as well as in images. To create or meditate on mandalas is till today a healing process and affects the human psyche deeply. Mandalas enforce the tendencies to unite the opposites, which is so crucial in our time.
Table of Contents
-Personal Foreword
-Preface
-Introduction To The Tapestry
-Description Of The Tapestry
-The History Of The Tapestry
-On The Use Of The Tapestry
-The Meaning Of The Tapestry
-Primordial Beginnings - The Male And Female Aspects Of God
-The First Four Days Of Creation
-Physics And Depth Psychology: Modern Approaches To Wholeness?
-Everyday Life As Depicted In The Border Of The Tapestry
-The Legend Of The Holy Cross
-Suggestions For The Missing Sections Of The Tapestry
Автор: Francesca Ciancimino Howell Название: Food, Festival and Religion: Materiality and Place in Italy ISBN: 1350020869 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350020863 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 126720.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Food, Festival and Religion explores how communities in northern Italy find a restorative sense of place through foodways, costuming and other forms of materiality. Festivals examined by the author vary geographically from the northern rural corners of Italy to the fashionable heart of urban Milan. The origins of these lived religious events range from Christian to vernacular Italian witchcraft and contemporary Paganism, which is rapidly growing in Italy.
Francesca Ciancimino Howell demonstrates that during ritualized occasions the sacred is located within the mundane. She argues that communal feasting, pilgrimage, rituals and costumed events can represent forms of lived religious materiality. Building on the work of scholars including Foucault, Grimes and Ingold, Howell offers a theoretical "Scale of Engagement" which further tests the interfaces between and among the materialities of place, food, ritual and festivals and provides a widely-applicable model for analyzing grassroots events and community initiatives.
Through extensive ethnographic research and fieldwork data, this book demonstrates that popular Italian festivals can be ritualized, liminal spaces, contributing greatly to the fields of religious, performance and ritual studies.
Автор: Benedetta Barbisan, Cesare Pinelli, Giuliano Amato Название: Rule of Law vs Majoritarian Democracy ISBN: 150993684X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509936847 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 116160.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
What is more paradoxically democratic than a people exercising their vote against the harbingers of the rule of law and democracy? What happens when the will of the people and the rule of law are at odds?
Some commentators note that the presence of illiberal political movements in the public arena of many Western countries demonstrates that their democracy is so inclusive and alive that it comprehends and countenances even undemocratic forces and political agendas. But what if, on the contrary, these were the signs of the deconsolidation of democracy instead of its good health? What if democratically elected regimes were to ignore constitutional principles representing the rule of law and the limits of their power? With contributions from judges and scholars from different backgrounds and nationalities this book explores the framework in which this tension currently takes place in several Western countries by focusing on four key themes: - The Rule of Law: presenting a historical and theoretical reconstruction of the evolution of the Rule of Law; - The People: dealing with a set of problems around the notion of 'people' and the forces claiming to represent their voice; - Democracy and its enemies: tackling a variety of phenomena impacting on the traditional democratic balance of powers and institutional order; - Elected and Non-Elected: focusing on the juxtaposition between judges (and, more generally, non-representative bodies) and the people's representation.
Автор: Waghmore Suryakant, Gorringe Hugo Название: Civility in Crisis: Democracy, Equality and the Majoritarian Challenge in India ISBN: 0367506416 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367506414 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 122490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book critically examines the relationship between civility, citizenship and democracy. It engages with the oft-neglected idea of civility (as a Western concept) to explore the paradox of high democracy and low civility that plagues India.
For most of its history, contemporary Paganism has been a religion of converts. Yet as it enters its fifth decade, it is incorporating growing numbers of second?generation Pagans for whom Paganism is a family tradition, not a religious worldview arrived at via a spiritual quest. In Pagan Family Values, S. Zohreh Kermani explores the ways in which North American Pagan families pass on their beliefs to their children, and how the effort to socialize children influences this new religious movement. The first ethnographic study of the everyday lives of contemporary Pagan families, this volume brings their experiences into conversation with contemporary issues in American religion. Through formal interviews with Pagan families, participant observation at various pagan events, and data collected via online surveys, Kermani traces the ways in which Pagan parents transmit their religious values to their children. Rather than seeking to pass along specific religious beliefs, Pagan parents tend to seek to instill values, such as religious tolerance and spiritual independence, that will remain with their children throughout their lives, regardless of these children's ultimate religious identifications. Pagan parents tend to construct an idealized, magical childhood for their children that mirrors their ideal childhoods. The socialization of children thus becomes a means by which adults construct and make meaningful their own identities as Pagans. Kermani’s meticulous fieldwork and clear, engaging writing provide an illuminating look at parenting and religious expression in Pagan households and at how new religions pass on their beliefs to a new generation.
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